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Kenya, Uganda protest as maize prices skyrocket

Stephen Omandi scratched out the number "55" on the sign advertising buckets of maize and wrote in the new price: 60 Kenya shillings. The price hike amounted to only $0.06. But for the residents of Nairobi's largest slum, where most people live on $1 a day, that 10 percent increase is enough to make the essential food stuff unaffordable.(..)Many of the slum's youngest are fed by the World Food Program or aid groups.